Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2024 edition
A recap of what happened in 2024 with Wikidata’s WikiProject Video games: 110,000 items, 70 new identifier properties, and a lot of video game genres.
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Small data, slow data − a SNAIL approach to Wikidata
In face of the challenges of Wikidata's rapid growth, let’s embrace a "Slow, NArrow, In-depth, Local" (SNAIL) approach to editing, emphasizing quality and thoroughness over sheer volume.
100,000 video games on Wikidata
Wikidata’s WikiProject Video games recently passed a major milestone: 100,000 video game (Q7889) items.
Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2023 edition
A recap of what happened in 2023 with Wikidata’s WikiProject Video games.
Pas dans la même (Wikicon)cours
Ce billet est inspiré d une réflexion au sein des sans pagEs, où plusieurs personnes ont exprimées le sentiment de « ne pas jouer dans la même cours » avec mon équipe du Wikiconcours d automne 2023. Il faut reconnaître qu on est allés assez loin niveau organisation : des réunions d avancement en visio, un journal de contribution, [ ]
Culture LGBT au Wikiconcours
Minima Gesté lors d un bingo drag. Photographie par Xavier Héraud, CC-by-SA De manière amusante, ma participation aux Wikiconcours et ma contribution sur les sujets LGBT+ sur Wikipédia suit la même trajectoire : un intérêt très tôt (septembre 2009, pour être exact), suivie d une longue période d inactivité jusqu au milieu des années 2010, pour ensuite enchainer les [ ]
Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2022 edition
A recap of what happened in 2022 with Wikidata’s WikiProject Video games.
50,000 video games on Wikidata
Wikidata’s WikiProject Video games recently passed a major milestone: 50,000 video game (Q7889) items on Wikidata. Let’s use that opportunity to draw a quick mid-year report. Description Let s look at how these items are described along some basic properties − asking the Wikidata Query Service for some pretty graphs, and using my trusted inteGraality for [ ]
Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2021 edition
It’s that time of the year! After the 2018, 2019 and 2020 recaps, let’s cover what happened in 2021 with the project that has been much out of my focus this year (but still in my heart), Wikidata’s WikiProject Video games. If you are not familiar with that endeavor, I will refer you to the [ ]
Where is the technical volunteer support in the Wikiverse?
Volunteer support is a major theme in the Wikimedia movement, and a typical endeavour of many affiliates. Content contributors are supported in many ways − Wikipedia writers get access to reference books, Wikimedia Commons photographers to equipment and accreditations, contest organizers to project management support, etc. Yet, to me there seems to be a major blindspot [ ]